The storm is expected to be at its height between 10 p.m. Saturday and 6 a.m. Sunday, with blizzard conditions possible at times.

He advises motorists to stay off the roads if at all possible tonight.

Meanwhile, Scot Yount reports municipal and state public works departments, as well as the snow plowers at Boston's Logan Airport, are getting ready for a snowstorm that is estimated to dump up to a foot of snow in some sections of central and western New England.